Old. Conservative. Christian. In love with my wife, our boys, Texas, America, Western Civilization, and Jesus. Sorry about the decline of newspapers.

May 10, 2017

MAY 10 / James B. Comey . . .

. . . needed firing. Everything he did during the 2016 election was wrong.

He was wrong . . .

. . . back in July to release information detrimental to Mrs. Clinton. And he was wrong to declare loudly that she could not be prosecuted. He was wrong in October to speak publicly about reopening the investigation. Then to speak publicly again about closing the investigation.

The place for an FBI director to speak is in court. He is an investigator, not a prosecutor, not a moral scold, certainly not a political functionary.

If he doesn't have enough to prosecute, tell that to the prosecutors, then close the file. If he does, tell that to the prosecutors. If they don't prosecute, that's on them.

Mr. Comey did none of this. He raced again and again for the microphones.

As for the left's mock outrage about the firing: pure theatrics. Last week the left would have drawn and quartered him. Now, as a figure convenient in the anti-Trump narrative, he's awarded the left's highest honor: victim.

President Trump is unfit to be president. He has made many missteps and will make more. But in firing Mr. Comey, he is on the side of the angels. Firing Mr. Comey made Washington, D.C., and thus our nation, a better place.

If Mr. Trump names a decent law-enforcement professional -- an adult -- as FBI director he will be on the side of the angels again.

(Yes, unfit to be president, but less unfit than candidate he defeated. Which is why I voted for him and would do it again.)